UNDERGROWTH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

Synonyms:

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("undergrowth" is a kind of...):

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undergrowth"):

ground cover; groundcover (small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor)

Holonyms ("undergrowth" is a member of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)